It seems when i’m deleting measurements with delete from XXXXXXXmeausrementXXX where tag=xxxxxx, this is fast. However, when dropping the whole measurement, doing drop measurement xxxxxxxxmeasurementNamexxxxxx it’s slower. Maybe it’s just a difference in the volume of data, but I don’t think that’…

Delete measurement is slow with larger measurements, why?

Jeffery_K April 3, 2018, 10:07pm 2

As I’ve thought about this some more, I do think I have a lot more data in the measurements which I’m dropping with drop measurement…

Do the delete times I posted above sound reasonable for the amount of data I mentioned?

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